Meme in three parts: 1: "I'm new to Linux, How am I doing this: …?" 2: Guy (Enthusiasts offering help) turning around looking at a good-looking woman (Cryptic CLI commands) while his apparent girlfriend (Accessible, user-friendly GUI tools) is looking at him like she's going to explode in a second 3: Very sad cat in front of a laptop looking at the camera (Devs of underappreciated GUI tools)
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[–] 21 points 8 months ago (1 child)

Unfortunately for newbies and GUI tool developers, I rarely use GUI tools and thus don't know of many. I do agree that GUI tools have better accessibility and discoverability, but they also have worse performance and are just generally more work to make and thus many developers of enthusiast tools skip the GUI.

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  • [–] 3 points 8 months ago

    Yes. I do tell my newbie friends about any graphical options I am aware of.

    Then they ask, "Thank you. Does it work well?".

    And I admit, "I have no idea. I just use the command line."

    Then they paste command I shared into the terminal and watch it finish successfully before the graphical tool has finished downloading.

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